But wryness aside, having it present itself to the user up front as potentially misleading, via humour, is probably the best way to operate over human minds anyway. Wit engages your own wit and critical faculties. If you are funnier than this AI, you are exercising your intelligence. Edward Tufte's old "the cognitive style of powerpoint" essay was about how the tech Microsoft used created generations of drones who thought in cliches and bullet points, whereas if Grok can actually challenge people via wit, we could actually get some enhancing effects from it. Psyched for this anyway. Congrats.

OpenAI’s GPT4 tech report was a marketing press release in disguise; I felt it represented a huge step down for the field in terms of academic rigour. But this model card epitomizes the end conclusion of LLM commoditization: no attempt to quantify limitations or weaknesses, portraying model biases and hateful/hallucinatory output as a feature rather than a bug, all wrapped up in breathless language of wanting to “maximally benefit humanity” while hiding the model behind a secretive waitlist or a $16 Twitter premium subscription plan.

What a boring release, to be honest.

More importantly:

>Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

I'm a big fan of both, but using a Robert Heinlein word to name something you say is based on a Douglas Adams idea is weird.

1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1720839331365929290

Consider how good Elon is at pulling in talent and reducing complexity. Very exciting stuff.